July 14, 2012
96P/Machholz 1
One of The Brickmuppets Crack Team of Science Babes comes to us with news of a most interesting comet. How interesting you ask?
Yes this comet may well have come from outside our solar system.
Via Spaceweather, there is an essay here on this comet and a few objects that may share the same origin.
As for looking at it, Pixy and his fellow antipodeans have a good view via telescope if they so choose.
In any event, it's viewable via SOHO and is being covered at Space Weather so you might want to take a look at this lonely traveler...it might be very far from home indeed.
'Science Babe' is actually Shizune Hachimaki from Katawa Shoujo.
"It's THIS interesting." she signs.
It seems that this comet is distinctly lacking in some of the elements usually found in comets like certain carbon compounds. This has some interesting implications...It must have had a very unusual origin and might even have formed in another solar system probably very different from our own.
Yes this comet may well have come from outside our solar system.
Via Spaceweather, there is an essay here on this comet and a few objects that may share the same origin.
As for looking at it, Pixy and his fellow antipodeans have a good view via telescope if they so choose.
For Northern hemisphere observers, the comet is unobservable before perihelion, but is viewable near the end of the month when it also appears low down in the evening sky. It remains observable although rapidly fading in brightness into August.
'Science Babe' is actually Shizune Hachimaki from Katawa Shoujo.
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July 08, 2012
Who Put The Seams In the Rainbows?
Via Transterrestrial Musings comes an interesting story on the differences between languages expression of colors. One thing that interested me, the old story I'd been told about Japanese stoplights (that they were red and blue prior to 1945) is probably false.
You know...I really ought to have caught that.
...But in Japanese, vegetables are ao-mono, literally blue things. Green apples? They’re blue too. As are the first leaves of spring, if you go by their Japanese name. In English, the term green is sometimes used to describe a novice, someone inexperienced. In Japanese, they’re ao-kusai, literally they ‘smell of blue’...
You know...I really ought to have caught that.
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